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activity in finding in all the authorities, what was known of the subjects 

 that for the moment interested him, and in securing the services of 

 workers, who would elaborate for him various points that these 

 authorities were silent about. As time went on he did less original 

 work himself, more of collecting and collating material from books, 

 magazines, and the numerous friends whose collaboration he had 

 secured. On one matter, and that perhaps the most important in 

 dealing with the Lepidoptera, he always possessed, and in his earliest 

 and latest works used, a marvellous intuition in discriminating species, 

 and as to the relations of forms to each other, whether they were species 

 or varieties, whether they were nearly or distantly related. It seemed 

 as if this were done on quite superficial characters, observed either in the 

 field or in the cabinet, but there can be little doubt that it was 

 strengthened and supplemented in many other ways. 



Amongst earlier examples of this faculty were his strongly formed 

 opinions on the Tephrosia question, and his discrimination from 

 Hi/il)oecia nictitans, of H. liuriis and H. paliKlia. He would probably 

 have separated H. crinauensis also had he had specimens before him. 

 Later, his separation of the Plebeiid Blues into several genera, though 

 carried further perhaps than was quite necessary, nevertheless recognised 

 distinct natural groups, not obvious to the ordinary collector, and 

 illustrated the same wonderful instinct. His anxiety to perfect his 

 knowledge was always governed by the desire to impart it to others, in 

 papers, lectures, addresses, and latterly, of course, in the British 

 Lepidoptera. Space will not permit of considering other sides of his 

 character and work that had some importance, but those above alluded to 

 give some clue tohisiniiuenceinBritish Entomology. Largely, of course, 

 it had to do with the Lepidoptera, but his abounding energy and vitality 

 not only communicated itself to Lepidopterists by stimulatmg their 

 activity, but reacted strongly into further fields. There can be little 

 doubt that the younger race of British Lepidopterists are more numerous 

 than they would have been without his influence, that they progress 

 more rapidly, join our junior and premier societies more readily, and 

 have an intelligent outlook over a much wider field than was available 

 thirty years ago. No doubt a larger proportion will press forward and 

 help the advance of Entomology in the future. 



It may be said, all this is part of the advance we see in all 

 directions and had little to do with Tutt. This may be true in some 

 degree, but Tutt was in fact the chief agent by which all forward 

 movements in Entomological Science were made available to the 

 neophyte, and secured for him a sound footing. 



He certainly advanced Entomology also though the mass of work 

 he got done by various collaborators, as especially evidenced in the 

 British Lepidoptera. Much of this would certainly never have been 

 done, none probably recorded, apart from his influence. 



He secured this collaboration by the magnetism of his energetic 

 vitality, and more perhaps by making it evident, that all assistance 

 would be eftective, whether as obvious communications or as elements 

 in Tuttian disquisitions, and that nothing would be lost, thrown aside, 

 or forgotten. 



Entomology, therefore, owes to Tutt not only Tutt's own work 

 on the British Lepidoptera (and elsewhere) but also that of his 



